Events on Sunday, January 13
Sunday 1/13 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Sunday 1/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio...
Sunday 1/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Renaissance Society
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana...
Sunday 1/13 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Sunday 1/13 @ Devening Projects + Editions
With metallic, elegant renderings of urban detritus and wasted cities, Austrian artist Felix Malnig carves his own niche out of the...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume,...
Sunday 1/13 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Last year, Todd Haynes reimagined Bob Dylan's fabled 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance as a literal (i.e. gun-toting) assault. Dylan's chameleonic...
Sunday 1/13 @ Beverly Bike and Ski
Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic...
Sunday 1/13 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art...
Sunday 1/13 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which...
Sunday 1/13 @ Music Box Theatre
If you've never seen a silent movie — or, at least, not on the big screen — let this be it....
Sunday 1/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
